From: Stan Hoeppner <stan@hardwarefreak.com>
To: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: Placing the root partition on an XFS filesystem is not supported
Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:29:41 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F2F4925.5020406@hardwarefreak.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4F2F33A8.1050403@sandeen.net>
On 2/5/2012 7:58 PM, Eric Sandeen wrote:
> On 2/5/12 7:54 PM, Dave Chinner wrote:
>> Oh, grub2 does worse things than that - grub_probe mounts any device
>> that appears to have a valid superblock so it can find out what
>> devices it needs to list in it's boot menu. I found this out when I
>> built a big DM stripe out of disks that used to have filesystems on
>> them. grub-probe mounted every single device -inside- the stripe
>> and ran log recovery on them, corrupting the new filesystem and
>> quite a bit of data on the DM stripe they were part of....
>
> Ok, your horror story wins from a pain POV ;)
What's the default bootloader of RHEL/Fedora? I'm not asking
rhetorically. I've never used either, and I'm curios if Red Hat went
the grub/grub2 route like SuSE and many/most other distros.
I use strictly Debian/LILO myself. I was quite relieved when they
decided not to throw LILO out of the distro. Apparently it had been
abandoned upstream. Luckily another dev took ownership at the last minute.
--
Stan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-02-07 0:33 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-29 12:46 Placing the root partition on an XFS filesystem is not supported Marcos Mello
2012-01-30 9:12 ` Stan Hoeppner
2012-01-30 11:19 ` Marcos Mello
2012-02-02 21:40 ` Eric Sandeen
2012-02-03 14:39 ` Marcos Mello
2012-02-03 18:50 ` Eric Sandeen
2012-02-06 0:11 ` Dave Chinner
2012-02-06 0:13 ` Eric Sandeen
2012-02-06 1:54 ` Dave Chinner
2012-02-06 1:58 ` Eric Sandeen
2012-02-06 3:29 ` Stan Hoeppner [this message]
2012-02-06 10:44 ` Marcos Mello
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2012-02-04 4:17 Richard Scobie
2012-02-04 14:29 ` Marcos Mello
2012-02-05 0:47 ` Eric Sandeen
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